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Happy 20th Birthday, World Wide Web

CERN on March 13 celebrates the 20th anniversary of a proposal entitled, "Information Management: A Proposal," by Tim Berners-Lee, which would become the blueprint for the World Wide Web

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The Mind Behind the Web

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and continues to shape its frantic evolution. He's not rich or famous. Which is fine by him

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Facts about the Web's Creation

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Web's first days

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Remembering the Day the World Wide Web Was Born

What drove Tim Berners-Lee to imagine this game-changing model for information sharing, and will its openness be its undoing?

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The Future of Computing (Circa 1999)

M.I.T.'s Laboratory for Computer Science is developing a new infrastructure for information technologies--the Oxygen system--that promises to realize a vision long held by the lab's director: helping people do more by doing less

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